NOTES FROM DOUG

Happy and Blessed New Year! We all were at many different stages in our Life Journal reading for 2018. Some finished strong, others found their way to the finish line, and still others are working towards the finish line. Congratulations to all. It was brave…

Praise the Lord, all you nations. Praise him, all you people of the earth. For his unfailing love for us is powerful; the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the Lord! (Psalms 117:1-2 NLT) This has been quite a year for us, going through the Life…

May you have a blessed Christmas! In the beginning, the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. The Word gave…

Have you ever fallen into the trap of comparison? My kids often would ask for something or want to go and do some event and at the end of the request they would add on, “Well, so and so is doing it” or “everybody else…

It’s funny but it’s me. I have watched enough TV in my life that when I start writing my Life Journal note to you I always start with a date for the whole week. But, what I am hearing inside of me (my inner voice)…

There are many things today that seem to weigh a person down. Things like money (never enough), health, career, school, family, loneliness, stress, and then the bigger world. Many companies, products, and people promise help. But, at a price and few really deliver. Then we…

“Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing his praises in the assembly of the faithful. O Israel, rejoice in your Maker. O people of Jerusalem, exult in your King. Praise his name with dancing, accompanied by tambourine and harp. For the…

People sometimes say to me things like, “are you sure God is real? You know you can’t see or feel him.” Well, yes I know he is real. Our journey starts with a small simple prayer. When we first prayed that prayer we weren’t sure,…

“This messenger was John the Baptist. He was in the wilderness and preached that people should be baptized to show that they had repented of their sins and turned to God to be forgiven. All of Judea, including all the people of Jerusalem, went out…